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4-38 To Amend Bylaws to Provide Clarity and Address Practical Considerations for Specialized Spiritual Care Ministry ...............323 4-39 To Use Title Chaplain within the Synod Exclusively for Ordained Clergy .........................324 4-40 To Encourage Use of Chalice ..............................324 4-41...
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2026 Convention Workbook 221 THEOLOGICAL DOCUMENTS —COMMISSION ON THEOLOGY AND CHURCH RELATIONS Way Forward Detailed Framework Page 10 of 50 6. Framework Part B: Changing the teaching to allow for ordination of women and men The Church in Synod changes its public teaching, amending the wording of TA VI:11 to allow b...
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2026 Convention Workbook 228 THEOLOGICAL DOCUMENTS —COMMISSION ON THEOLOGY AND CHURCH RELATIONS Way Forward Detailed Framework Page 38 of 50 11. Framework implementation 11.1 Assumptions Implementation of the Framework is based on the following starting assumptions: 1. That GCB-CoB are delegated with the appropriate...
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R62.12 President of Synod Request for Opinion on Lawsuits between Christians or Members and Institutions of Synod (2025) R62.12 2026 Convention Workbook 272 THEOLOGICAL DOCUMENTS —COMMISSION ON THEOLOGY AND CHURCH RELATIONS 5 1 The left-hand, institutional dimension of the church will inevitably take different...
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R62.12 President of Synod Request for Opinion on Lawsuits between Christians or Members and Institutions of Synod (2025) R62.12 2026 Convention Workbook 272 THEOLOGICAL DOCUMENTS —COMMISSION ON THEOLOGY AND CHURCH RELATIONS 5 1 The left-hand, institutional dimension of the church will inevitably take different...
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2026 Convention Workbook 149 OFFICER, BOARD, AND COMMISSION REPORTS5 number of exceptions that would be required in the next two conventions, it is clear that “doing nothing” is 1 not a realistic option.112 Figure 4 adds another dimension of the 2023 convention circuit apportionment, indicating on the vertical 3 ax...
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2026 Convention Workbook 273 THEOLOGICAL DOCUMENTS —COMMISSION ON THEOLOGY AND CHURCH RELATIONS CTCR Opinion on Admission to Seminary for Divorced Men The Rev. Dr. Brian Saunders, Chairman of the Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR), received correspondence dated November 11, 2024 from Mr. Mark O. Ster...
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R62.4 Response to the 2021 Final Report of the Theological Conversations between the ILC and the Roman Catholic Church (2024) R62.4 2026 Convention Workbook 213 THEOLOGICAL DOCUMENTS —COMMISSION ON THEOLOGY AND CHURCH RELATIONS 5 in 3.1.2 as well as the connective unity between Christ’s sacrificial death and the S...
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R62.4 Response to the 2021 Final Report of the Theological Conversations between the ILC and the Roman Catholic Church (2024) R62.4 2026 Convention Workbook 213 THEOLOGICAL DOCUMENTS —COMMISSION ON THEOLOGY AND CHURCH RELATIONS 5 in 3.1.2 as well as the connective unity between Christ’s sacrificial death and the S...
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2026 Convention Workbook 213 THEOLOGICAL DOCUMENTS —COMMISSION ON THEOLOGY AND CHURCH RELATIONS 5 in 3.1.2 as well as the connective unity between Christ’s sacrificial death and the Sacrament of the Altar (3.1.3). However, some terminology and emphases in section 3. Commonalities give pause. Here we mention t...
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communities in which they carry out ministry, and all congregations are valued for said ministry, but the discrepancy in size between the largest and smallest congregations has expanded since the 1970s, such that more members of congregations of the Synod have fewer representatives at a Synod convention; and W HER...
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